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Lahore: 2 ‘outlaws’ gunned down near police picket

Lahore: 2 ‘outlaws’ gunned down near police picket

LAHORE: Police claimed to have gunneddown two alleged criminals in a ‘shootout’ in D–Block, Phase V of DefenceHousingAuthority, early Sunday. Police said they seized a motorcycle and twopistols with live rounds from the spot and despatched the bodies for autopsy. CantonmentSP (Operations) MaroofSafdarWahla told Dawn the DefenceB policemen present at a picket signaled four suspicious men riding two motorcycles to stop for checking around 3am. The bikers, instead of stopping at the picket, openedfire on police, damaging a police vehicle parked nearby. They tried to escape while firing at policemen who gave them a chase and resorted to retaliatory fire.

In the cross-fire that lasted a few minutes, two of the suspects fell onto the ground and later died on the spot, the SP said, adding their two accomplices managed to escape.

He said the dead suspects were later identified as RehmatAli and PervezKhan, both residents of HanjhravivillagePattokitehsil.

MrWahla said the police record showed that Rehmat was nominated in eight criminalcases including those of murder, attemptedmurder, dacoity, robbery, kidnapping, illegalarms etc, registered in policestations of SarayMughal, SaddarKasur, CityChunian and SaddarPattoki of Kasurdistrict.

He said Rehmat was also involved in extortions and his father and two brothers too had been killed in crossfire with police in Kasurdistrict.

The SP said the other outlaw, Pervez, was also a proclaimedoffender in two murdercasesregistered in Kasurdistrict and acted as Rehmat’s bodyguard.